| Who | Contribution(s)
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| Edwin Armstrong | Regenerative circuit, frequency modulation (FM)
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| Amar Bose | Acoustics: audio and speakers
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| Emile Baudot | Communications
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| Alexander Graham Bell | Bell telephone company
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| Alan Blumlein | Inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, television, radar
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| Karlheinz Brandenburg | Audio compression scheme MP3
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| William Coolidge | X-rays
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| Seymour Cray | Supercomputer architect
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| Lee DeForest | Audion vacuum tube
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| George de Mestral | Velcro
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| Paul Dirac | Physicist; Dirac delta
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| Ray Dolby | Dolby sound
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| J. Presper Eckert | Computer pioneer
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| Thomas Edison | Prolific inventor: phonograph, first practical light bulb, telegraph improvements
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| A. K. Erlang | Communications and Queueing
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| Michael Faraday | Discovered electromagnetic induction and Faraday shield
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| Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti | Ferranti Corporation
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| Reginald Fessenden | "Father of Radio Broadcasting"
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| Gerhard Fischer | Handheld metal detector
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| John Ambrose Fleming | Inventor of the thermionic valve (vacuum tube)
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| Thomas Flowers | Designer of the first programmable digital electronic computer
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| Jay Forrester | American computer pioneer
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| Charles Legeyt Fortescue | Canadian - symmetrical components for three-phase power system analysis
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| Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier | Physicist; Fourier transform / Fourier series
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| Lee Hamilton | Businessman, current president of Freedom Scientific
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| Ralph Hartley | Electronics
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| Oliver Heaviside | Re-formulated Maxwell's equations (vector calculus)
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| Peter Cooper Hewitt | Mercury vapor lamp, mercury arc rectifier
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| William Hewlett | Hewlett-Packard
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| Grace Hopper | Computer programmer (first compiler)
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| Lawrence A. Hyland | Radar pioneer, leader of Hughes Aircraft
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| Kees Schouhamer Immink | Pioneer optical recording, CD, DVD, Blu-Ray Disc
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| Bill Joy | Unix - Sun Microsystems
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| Rudolf Kalman | Inventor of the Kalman filter
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| Charles Kettering | Automobile electrical innovations, Delco founder
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| Jack Kilby | Integrated circuit
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| Herbert Kroemer | Heterostructures and semiconductor physics
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| Eric Laithwaite | Linear induction motor
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| Hedy Lamarr | Communications
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| Uno Lamm | Swedish, HVDC and mercury arc valves
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| Guglielmo Marconi | Practical radio
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| John Mauchly | ENIAC designer
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| Robert Moog | Electronic music pioneer, invented Moog synthesizer
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| Arthur Nielsen | Nielsen ratings developer
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| Robert Noyce | Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel
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| Bernard M. (Barney) Oliver | Hewlett-Packard, Founder HP Labs
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| Kenneth Olsen | Magnetic core memory; Digital Equipment Corporation
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| Donald Pederson | Father of SPICE
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| David Packard | Hewlett-Packard
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| Mihajlo Pupin | Long-distance telephone communication. "Pupin coil"
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| Hyman G. Rickover | "Father of the Nuclear Navy"
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| Edward S. Rogers, Sr. | Inventor of the first successful AC radio tube
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| H. J. Round | Radio pioneer and assistant to Guglielmo Marconi
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| Thomas Johann Seebeck | Thermoelectric effect
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| Claude Shannon | "Father of Communication Theory"
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| Percy Spencer | Microwave oven
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| Frank J. Sprague | "Father of Electric Traction"
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| Charles Proteus Steinmetz | Alternating current theories
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| Albert H. Taylor | First demonstration of radar
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| Nikola Tesla | Revolving magnetic field electric motor, Tesla coil, Polyphase transmission systems, transformer
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| Elihu Thomson | Entrepreneur
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| William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) | Telegraphic cables
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| Milan Vidmar | Power transformers and transmission of electric current
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| Andrew Viterbi | Communications
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| Robert Watson-Watt | First practical radar
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| George Westinghouse | AC power industrialist
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| Niklaus Wirth | Computer programming languages
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| Steve Wozniak | Personal computers; Apple Computer
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| Konrad Zuse | Computers
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